When someone is in charge of creating and implementing (or at least contributing to) a big challenging task like a new training program, they want it to be successful. But how can a new training progr...
We are in the twenty-first century, a time which is defined by an unprecedented surge in technology. Everybody in the modern world is somehow connected and most jobs do require more than average compu...
Organizational success is closely related to the organization’s capacity to adapt to market conditions that change at rapid speeds. And since adaptability is inherently linked to learning, the way bus...
We often say that people are the most important resource a company can have and that the success of any organization is directly connected to its people. However, it is often the case in many companie...
One of the biggest challenges faced by businesses these days is getting and retaining talented employees. In today’s workplace, loyalty no longer means what it did a decade ago. The younger generation...
Only good leadership can drive performance. This much has been obvious for long enough that CEOs are aware of the enormous importance of leadership development. The great enigma remains, however, what...
The world we live in today is one of permanent, open source connectivity. Knowledge is free and abundant and there is a lot more transparency than some of us may feel comfortable with. Communication i...
The trends in entertainment are usually a very accurate measure of what ‘tickles the pickle’ of people at a certain time. In the ancient world, people enjoyed gladiator fights or (pretty much at the o...
Millennials are no longer the future generation. They are today’s employees and the modern workplace needs to adapt in order to accommodate them as they are very different than their predecessors. The...
This post was origianlly published on TrainingZone, on July 27th. A growing number of companies — mostly multinational giants, but also medium-sized and even smaller ones — are riding the wave of glob...
Mentoring is definitely not a recent concept. It has been around in the corporate world almost from its beginnings. Traditionally this means pairing an older, experienced employee with a younger one w...
Being new at anything is both a stressful and an exciting situation. When it comes to management positions, the excitement is most often shadowed by all the challenges they pose. This is why onboardin...
Their supporters describe Millennials as free-spirited, self-aware youngsters who know what they want and what they are worth and feel very strongly about their autonomy. Their detractors, on the othe...
Teamwork and collaboration are qualities that inevitably show up in any job description when companies publish ads for hiring new people. Businesses spend a lot of money on team-building exercises, tr...
Calculating return on investment started out in the manufacturing sector, where it was easy to measure the time to complete a particular task and the number of items produced by employees or machines....
This post has been updated on July 8, 2020. Mentoring is a big thing in today’s business world but very few people know where and how it all started. Mentor is actually a Greek mythical character. He ...
